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名詞

book burning (countable and uncountable, plural book burnings)

1. (literally) A mass burning of books, intended as a form of political and/or religious censorship.
2. (by extension, idiomatic) Any mass destruction, removal, or recalling of books, motion pictures, broadcasts, or electronic works as a form of censorship, especially motivated by religious or political objections to the material.
   • 1987, “Exhuming McCarthy”, in Document (R.E.M. No. 5), performed by R.E.M.:

     Exhuming McCarthy (meet me at the book burning, meet me at the book burning)

同意語

• bibliocide

名詞

book-burning (countable and uncountable, plural book-burnings)

1. The practice of destroying books by fire because of moral, religious or political objections to the material they contain.
2. An event where books are burned.
   • 1981 February 14, Joanne Brown, “Feminist Starts Uproar By Putting Up Sticker”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 3:

     […] only a month after 75 students there held a public bookburning of their student handbok for its gay content.

派生語

• book-burner

参考

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